
In real life, Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific head of the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. General Leslie Groves was in overall command of it. This film reenacts the project with an emphasis on their relationship.
Clark GreggDouglas Panton
Ed LauterWhitney Ashbridge
Madison MasonBoris Pash
Mary Pat GleasonDora Welsh
John CusackMichael MerrimanJohn Cusack's character, Michael Merriman, is a fictional composite; based primarily on Louis P. Slotin and (to a lesser degree) Harry K. Daghlian.
Richard Schoenfield:
Hey Oppenheimer! Oppenheimer! You oughta stop playing God, 'cause you're no good at it, and the position's taken!
Factual errors: It was actually Neddermayer who proposed the implosion theory.
(The sorcerer's apprentice)
Composed by Paul Dukas
Performed by The Vienna Symphony
Conducted by Edouard Van Remoortel
Courtesy of The Moss Music Group
by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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